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Check out the list of communities with the most active users - it is certainly very different to what it was a year ago.

I just wanted to thank you all for making Exploding Heads what it is today - a mechanism to use humor and facts to expose the truths the ruling class is trying to hide.

Plus a few bonuses thrown in. Case in point, I never imagined a community on Relationship Advice would be one of the 15 most active communities on Exploding Heads.

This proves the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. That ultimately the future direction of Exploding Heads lies in the hands of community members like yourself.

Thank you all for everything you do.

In case anybody is interested.

If you participate, please be respectful.

Check out the huge list of this huge instances that federate with Exploding Heads. You posts, comments, & wisdom are being enjoyed by many more people then ever before.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/524105

Just a short note to let you know, we upgraded the server to the latest version of Lemmy today. Here are the upgrade notes:

This version brings major optimizations to the database queries, which significantly reduces CPU usage. There is also a change to the way federation activities are stored, which reduces database size by around 80%. Special thanks to @phiresky for their work on DB optimizations.

The federation code now includes a check for dead instances which is used when sending activities. This helps to reduce the amount of outgoing POST requests, and also reduce server load.

In terms of security, Lemmy now performs HTML sanitization on all messages which are submitted through the API or received via federation. Together with the tightened content-security-policy from 0.18.2, cross-site scripting attacks are now much more difficult.

Other than that, there are numerous bug fixes and minor enhancements.

Take it for a spin and let me know what you think

I will promote it on scored and I will continue to promote this website and hopefully you will too

However, our main advantage is that we do not ban accounts based on frivolous matters. Also, we allow anyone to open up their own community. Are there any liberals that are interested in opening their own political community here on exploding heads? Also, you can be sure that if you do open up that community you can prevent trolling of that community by banning people from that particular community. But I am seriously considering opening up a civil debate community where people act in good faith to have discussions about politics and various issues. Anyway, let me know your thoughts in the comments below.

Share this site everywhere ppl

I have no clue how to set up protections against against hacking and i feel like a liability, thanks kapow for trusting me

Way to be unique

This is a free speech absolutism instance. Users must personally block people or communities they don’t like. I’m encouraging people who don’t want to see offensive material to block dank memes or dank microwave taco if they are offended by controversial material. I will create an alternate account soon so that people can block me if they like considering it’s impossible to block an administrator. If you need help in learning how to block people or communities, please ask me in the comments below.

(Please excuse my typing as i use an iPhone for everything and usually post via speech to text while driving) Me and Fisuxcel (mod of dank memes) have been shit posting together since 2020. Glad we have the ability to boast that we made two bad ass communities. Anyway I just wanted to address a few different things. To all the people that I have rubbed the wrong way especially my good friends on the right side of the political spectrum and the center (and even a few on the left), im sorry. I can be a bit unhinged at times and a lot of times I’m saying things just trying to be funny but come off the wrong way. My political views are what they are (civic nationalist) and i won’t change. As far as speech codes go I wont be banning people for saying offensive things; I’m not interested. For the first time in a long time i banned some people for things I normally never banned people for, regretted it and unbanned those people. If people want to defederate from they will s asnd or already have. Only if in my mind it truly goes overboard will i ban people (basically calls for violence) and no i wont elaborate anymore on the subject, i have too much already. To all the people that visit us and lurk I just wanted to say thanks for stopping by, please post sometime even if you disagree with the posts you’ve viewed; again i wont ban you from the site. (although mods can kick you from communities and people have the right to block you)

Furthermore i will say this; although I’m not interested in poaching people from other instances, I will give you one good reason to make an account at exploding heads. You will never have your account banned under any circumstances unless you make calls for violence or break United States law or are an advertiser for a company. You’ll have the peace of mind and knowing that your content will not be lost because some administrator decided to ban you like they do on big tech platforms, and other instances. Also, if you find yourself lurking here because you like the posts here and the people here but don’t want to comment or post because you are afraid of getting your profile banned on another instance, maybe you should ask yourself this question; why do I have a profile on that instance in the first place?

All that being said, I want to thank all the other instances that have not blocked, exploding heads, even though we’ve had our differences. There has been a lot of back-and-forth and although we’ve had some pretty hectic experiences interacting with one another, it has been fun in my opinion.

Stay strong and I wish everyone success in everything they do.

Sincerely; Sir Wiggle Hard

P.S. lets get back to shit posting, sharing news, driving traffic, sharing interesting content and holding interesting discussions. Also special thanks to kapow for hosting us and putting up with all the craziness you’re a good man. And also a special thank you to master of balls for helping in development of this place and your continued dedication towards the development of alt tech platforms.

Dont be afraid especially if you have not commented bef

As a precautionary measure, Exploding Heads has added threads.net to its block list.

I like a lot of other users, was concerned about data harvesting and privacy implications of federating with Meta/Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp/Threads.

But actions taken yesterday by Threads convinced me there was no upside for Exploding Heads allowing threads.net to federate with us:

• censoring content - how much Exploding Heads content would they let Threads users see.
• discouraging users from following certain users - would Threads users really be allowed to follow Exploding Heads content or would it be a one way street where Threads pump propaganda into Exploding Heads.

As you know defederating runs against the grain here at Exploding Heads, but I think this is the best decision till Threads proves (and demonstrates by its actions) the above concerns are unfounded.

There are lots of Lemmy instances that will allow threads.net to federate, do you have a choice if that is important to you.

Thank you for your understanding.

We have several niche communities and are looking for people to push non political content. Also we guarantee not to ban your account over frivolous matters and offensive speech or posts so long as they don’t break United States law or violate the patriot act. We do this so ppl don’t have to worry about losing all their posts and content. Any questions or concerns leave in the comments below but just know we aren’t changing our policy on speech

Vote yay or nay

I rarely lose steam, i always am full court press when i post and give my opinion on the internet. My question to God was what do you want me to do in life? Keep on with my stuff on the internet or just disappear. The answer became abundantly clear to me. Im not going to go as far to say I’m on a mission from God but i feel my place is to continue to push forward with my stewardship of exploding heads, sharing news and trying to improve myself in my personal life. For those that don’t know i have been through a drastic life change in the past year and things are now becoming easier for me. Anyway i won’t get into my personal life I’m going to just keep pushing. Anyway take care and lets keep posting ladies and gentlemen.

If my other admin wants to add anything to this, please do so in the comments below. Basically, we are a free-speech instance, but all crazy and controversial comments and posts will be limited to the dank, microwave taco and dank memes going forward with special considerations given to the Donald’s community. We want a functional website and I think in all other communities aside from the ones I’ve listed above, we should have civil discussion and good faith conversation. If people go into communities that are not designated for crazy and controversial posts and start drama, then you will be banned from that community, but not banned from the instance.

I will handle it on a case by case basis and will show leniency towards people giving plenty of chances. Recently we had a guy who just joined get asked on s as scale of one through ten how racist he is and that was on his introduction post, of course this is by the troll yobama but thats not the point. We are still free speech. Still allow controversial content and opinions but those are usually limited in the DMT and dank memes community, although other places may hold arguments please use common sense, if there are issues i will dm you personally and no longer will i post official complaints by users as a post. To anyone that has any questions especially the people that been here please DM me

Im inviting all ppl to post and contribute, mods will have free reign over communities, only rule is no porn or foot fetish material, no posting pro pedo material, you will be reported to the fbi, again offensive material is soley for dank microwave taco and the dank memes communities only unless stated by a respective mod that that material is wanted there (although id recommend you not do that) and i and kapow will still be ultimate judge over what’s acceptable. We really need ppl to post material other than shit post stuff. I will fully admit that my plan all along was to bring more ppl here, and now here we are, I recommend everyone start advertising this site on other social media. Things are going to be hectic during the growth stage, don’t expect it to be all sunshine and rainbows. that being said dmt is the battle ground for ideas, debate and shit talking in general and i fully endorse this for that community, dank memes is the home of offensive memes not suitable for the fun memes community, have fun and feel free to post as you like in this free speech absolutism instance. (I will not however allow this place to become a nazi haven for ppl yelling the n word or saying anti jew stuff in spam like posts) remember that kapow pays for all of this and its his intention to have a family friendly instance woth all the drama staying in dmt and dank memes, if you dont like that idk what to say but thats what it is, have fun everybody cz we aint going nowhere

I advise everyone in this instance to ignore him, he’s probably on drugs or at least he acts like it

For most of us Exploding Heads is a labor of love. The best way you can support us is by:

• Actively participating in discussions
• Telling others about Exploding Heads and why you like it.

Engaging discussion and interesting content will help Exploding Heads grow.

Do you have a special interest? If so, is there a community for that on Exploding Heads? If not, start one. If there is, please contribute to it and help make it a vibrant discussion.

Where do you live? Is there a community for your state or country? If not, start one. If there is, please contribute to it and help make it a vibrant discussion.

• I cannot stress how important this is - we all live somewhere and that local community will have the biggest impact on our day to day lives.
• The rest of the world only hears about where you live through the media and lets just say the media does not always give an accurate reflection of what is going on there. We are interested, tell us.

Lastly, it does cost money to keep Exploding Heads running, so if you can afford it, we would appreciate a donation.

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I banned him cz he said he was 14 after i trolled him about him wanting to be my girlfriend, he is clearly just a 30 something year old loser from somewhere in EU, however according to united stares law once made aware of such a fact, even if its just a troll or a joke i must disengage because it could be true, either way no big loss cz honestly he brought nothing to the table in terms of good faith discussion and rather was just trying to cause trouble and start drama, which im fine with but joking about being 14 isnt, fuck that

Im Really happy with all the activity on the website over the past week. We’ve had good times, we’ve had bad times and one time I even cried on kapows shoulder. All kidding aside I want to seriously thank everyone for showing interest in this website (even the people causing drama in certain communities) and for giving us a chance and trusting me and my fellow admin kapow with your posts and content. I would like to note that we will never ban your account or delete your posts as admins unless it is an extreme situation that requires us by law to delete it, or breaks some of the essential rules that are needed to keep a website functional. We believe in free speech absolutism.

On the subject of defederation, I humbly applaud all the other instances for not separating from us. I know you are under a lot of pressure from certain people and instances to cut ties with exploding heads. I humbly ask that we stick together and perhaps even take a stand against this bullying tactic from other instances that shall not be named. I have been addressing some of the issues personally with some of the people who crossed over to the other instances and might’ve ruffled feathers. I’ll also take one quick moment to mention that on any community, the block feature is available for anyone that doesn’t want to see offensive content which mainly lies in the dank microwave taco or dank memes community on exploding heads. Also blocking users is something available as well and I encourage lgbt people and those that take offense to edgy material to block those communities mentioned above. If you need assistance blocking a person or community feel free to reach out to me.

As far as my admin style goes i’m very hands on and i speak my mind so i do apologize if i come across as harsh sometimes. I will be the first to admit that I am a terrible administrator. I honestly hate the idea of moderation and wish people would just say what they feel.

Also We are not what some call a “nazi instance” and as a matter of fact I’ve stated my thoughts on nazis in this post. https://exploding-heads.com/post/159008

Also to anyone reading this from other instances, i’m not really interested in poaching people from other instances. However if having an account on a chat forum where you know the admins will not ban or exile you over frivolous matters resulting in all of your content being lost forever matters to you, then create a profile here, you’re safe with us.